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Ethicon To Pay $80 Million In Pelvic Mesh Verdict | 6/18/2019
Ethicon's pelvic mesh devices are substantially similar to their hernia repair mesh...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Mesh Is Similar to The Transvaginal Mesh Which Was Subject to Recall | 6/13/2019
Companies continue to sell the hernia repair mesh in spite of the writing on the wall indicating that, for the patient, it will not end well...READ MORE
Laparoscopic Surgery Can Increase the Rate of Hernia Mesh Revision Surgeries | 6/7/2019
90% of surgeons using laparoscopic surgery and hernia repair mesh together are inexperienced and lack the skills to operate the sophisticated equipment safely...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Doctors Are Ignoring The Risks of Using Hernia Mesh | 6/3/2019
Hernia repair mesh can leave a patient with permanent chronic pain, not nearly the outcome they were seeking or expected...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Surgeons Are Divided Over Natural Tissue Versus Surgical Mesh Hernia Repair Techniques | 5/27/2019
Most hernia repair doctors are unwilling to give up using hernia repair mesh even though there is great potential for harmful consequences...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Mesh Sales Continue In Spite of Requiring Revision Surgeries | 5/21/2019
It is estimated that more than 10% of all hernia repair meshes will fail every year requiring a second, revision surgery...READ MORE
Over 200 Deaths Due To Faulty Hernia Repair Mesh Have Been Uncovered By An FDA Whistleblower | 5/15/2019
Hernia repair mesh failures may be many times greater than what has been reported by the FDA...READ MORE
Hernia Mesh Could Soon Follow Pelvic Mesh And Be Banned In The US | 5/6/2019
There is little difference between hernia mesh and the transvaginal mesh that has been banned in the US...READ MORE
Laparoscopic Hernia Mesh Removal Can Break Hernia Mesh Into Pieces If Performed Improperly | 4/30/2019
Few surgeons are trained in any form of hernia mesh repair and attempting laparoscopy adds to the complications...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Mesh Results May Not Be Living Up To Expectations | 4/24/2019
Sold as minimally invasive surgery and preferred to natural-tissue hernia repair, thousands of hernia mesh repair patients may require revision surgery...READ MORE
The FDA Bans Pelvic Surgical Mesh | 4/18/2019
The FDA should have required medical devices like pelvic and hernia repair mesh to be more thoroughly tested before being brought to market...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Mesh Was A Really Bad Idea | 4/15/2019
Theoretically, all hernia repair mesh made from a certain chemical will fail and require revision surgery to repair the hernia naturally...READ MORE
The World's Leading Hernia Repair Hospital Questions Laparoscopic Hernia Repair Techniques | 4/8/2019
Laparoscopic hernia repair techniques using hernia repair mesh devices are often touted as safer and less invasive but in fact, are so difficult to perform that few doctors do them correctly...READ MORE
More and More Hernia Patients Are Avoiding Surgeons That Insist On Using Hernia Repair Mesh | 3/27/2019
Hernia repair patients should have the latest information before agreeing to one type of hernia repair surgery or another...READ MORE
Australia and England Are Devastated By Pelvic and Hernia Repair Mesh Failures | 3/22/2019
Many believe that nothing less than a complete overhaul of Australia's health care system can prevent a situation like the pelvic and hernia mesh scandal from reoccurring...READ MORE
More and More Hernia Surgeons Also Remove Failed Hernia Mesh Devices | 3/19/2019
Hernia mesh is known to reduce the rate of hernia re-occurrence but at the cost of potentially more serious medical consequences...READ MORE
Doctors in Great Britain Are Concerned Over The High Rate of Hernia Mesh Failures | 3/15/2019
If the hernia repair rates that doctors in England are experiencing carry over to the US, thousands of hernia repair mesh patients could require revision surgery...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Mesh Can Lacerate The Bowels Releasing Feces Into The Body Cavity | 3/12/2019
A hernia patient's skin turned brown then vomits blood and his own feces after hernia repair mesh lacerated his bowels...READ MORE
A Strangulated Hernia Can Lead to Death | 3/7/2019
Hernia strangulation can have serious medical consequences requiring emergency surgery...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Trials Delayed Until 2020 | 3/3/2019
The need for proper evidence gathering and handling is causing a delay in Physiomesh multi-district litigation...READ MORE
Doctors May Require Special Training To Remove Failed Hernia Repair Mesh | 2/28/2019
Revision surgery to recover hernia mesh that has migrated within the body could spawn a new medical specialty...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Mesh Failures to Increase In The Years to Come | 2/22/2019
As the market for hernia repair mesh continues to grow, so should the number of lawsuits when the medical device fails...READ MORE
Johnson & Johnson To Pay $41 Million To Injured Pelvic Mesh Patient | 2/15/2019
Ethicon, Inc., a medical devices unit of Johnson & Johnson, also makes an array of hernia mesh medical devices similar to their recalled pelvic mesh...READ MORE
The world's leading hernia repair hospital will not touch hernia mesh with a ten-foot pole | 2/11/2019
Having performed almost one-half of a million successful hernia repairs, the leading hernia repair hospital in the world says that hernia repair mesh can cause serious complication and never uses the medical device...READ MORE
Little is Known Why Ethicon Withdrew Physiomesh Composite Hernia Repair Mesh From the Worldwide Market | 2/5/2019
Ethicon withdrew one model of hernia repair mesh from sale because of its failure yet left a substantially similar one untouched...READ MORE
Australian Hernia Institute Downplays Hernia Mesh Failure | 1/29/2019
Australian hernia mesh experts think that hernia mesh failure is at an acceptable level and that physicians should continue to use the medical device to repair most types of hernias...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Mesh Plaintiffs Are Gathering For Fall 2019 Trials | 1/24/2019
If you or a loved one have experienced complications after having hernia repair surgery using a hernia repair mesh, you may qualify to file suit against Ethicon and its parent company Johnson & Johnson...READ MORE
Senator Rand Paul Chooses a Canadian Hospital Specializing in Non-Mesh Hernia Repair | 1/19/2019
Those in the know choose the world's best hospitals which in turn shun using hernia mesh for their hernia repair operations...READ MORE
Hernia Mesh Patients Fear Comparisons To Failed Pelvic Mesh Devices | 1/15/2019
Millions of hernia mesh patients may experience complications similar to other surgical mesh devices...READ MORE
England Health Ministries Are Concerned Over A Large Number of Hernia Mesh Failures | 1/10/2019
Upwards of one in three hernia mesh repair patients over the last six years have reported needing a revision surgery to remove hernia mesh...READ MORE
University Hospital Continues to Use Hernia Mesh | 1/8/2019
A prestigious medical institution continues to recommend hernia repair mesh despite certain types being pulled from the market...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Physicians Are Dealing With Hernia Repair Mesh Failures | 1/1/2019
Hernia repair doctors must deal with hernia mesh failures every day and are speaking out about the failed medical device ...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Doctors Are Shunning Repair Mesh And Returning To Traditional Hernia Repair Methods | 12/20/2018
Hernia repair mesh was and continues to be a faulty idea and should be used only as a last resort...READ MORE
Hernia Mesh Failure Symptoms Should Be Addressed Immediately | 12/18/2018
Hernia repair mesh has been voluntarily taken off of the market by Ethicon, a medical devices unit of Johnson & Johnson leading experts to speculate the device can do more harm than good...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Mesh Patients Are Coming Forward With Their Stories | 12/11/2018
Europe is very concerned that hernia repair mesh could cause suffering in millions of patients in the coming decade...READ MORE
Record Number of Hernia Mesh Failures Predicted in England | 12/7/2018
Hernia mesh failure is a problem that is hardly unique to the United States of America...READ MORE
Examples of Hernia Mesh Failure | 11/30/2018
The proof that hernia repair meshes were a bad idea lies in the stories of those who have suffered because of them...READ MORE
Europe's Hernia Mesh Scandal | 11/20/2018
When it comes to labeling the hernia mesh failure European officials are pulling no punches...READ MORE
Think Twice Before Accepting A Doctor's Hernia Mesh Recommendation | 11/9/2018
Of all of the defective medical devices being rushed to market, none has a higher rate of failure than the hernia repair patch...READ MORE
Hernia Mesh Devices - A History of Failure | 11/2/2018
Hernia mesh repair devices are unnecessary and are complicating a relatively straightforward surgical procedure...READ MORE
Physiomesh Problems Are Certain To Occur For Many Years To Come | 10/30/2018
Even though Johnson & Johnson pulled Physiomesh from the market that action could have come too late for thousands of patients...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Hernia Mesh Problems and Consumer Complaints | 10/25/2018
Physiomesh Composite Hernia Mesh Complaints Can Be Viewed on the FDA's MAUDE Database...READ MORE
Doctors Trusted the FDA to the Detriment of Physiomesh Patients | 10/16/2018
Doctors are obligated to administer an unwritten code of ethics when evaluating a patient and then recommending a course of action...READ MORE
Hernia Repair Is One of the Most Frequently Performed Surgeries in the World | 10/12/2018
In spite of Ethicon's Physiomesh withdrawal and with billions at stake, the market for hernia repair medical devices is likely to expand, not contract...READ MORE
Doctors should not be blindly trusted to do what is best for their patients | 10/3/2018
It is the patient's responsibility to check with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) online to see if there have been excessive complaints about the device their physician is planning to put into their body...READ MORE
Physiomesh Substantially Similar to Other Failed Medical Devices | 10/1/2018
The FDA's fast-track approval process allows dangerous medical devices like Physiomesh on the market...READ MORE
Physiomesh Can Degrade and Break Into Pieces During Attempted Revision Surgeries | 9/28/2018
Trying to remove Physiomesh can have painful and potentially life-threatening consequences...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Polypropylene May Not be Biocompatible | 9/27/2018
Scientific Studies show that Polypropylene, a synthetic, petroleum-based plastic, is attacked by the human body as a foreign invader breaks down, shrinks and deteriorates...READ MORE
Ethicon's Physiomesh Composite Mesh Joins the Transvaginal Mesh as Recalled Failures | 9/22/2018
All that is required for a medical device to receive FDA approval is that it is substantially similar to another medical device that has already received approval...READ MORE
Patients Can Report Their Medical Device Problems to an FDA Online Database For Everyone to See | 9/20/2018
Ethicon Physiomesh patient reports to the MAUDE database may have forced Ethicon to voluntarily withdraw the medical device from the market and saved lives...READ MORE
The Problem With The FDA's 501 (k) Fast-Track Approval Process Is That It Bypasses The Testing Usually Required Of A New Medical Device | 9/18/2018
Doctors that recommend the device to patients assume that rigorous pre-market testing has occurred however 99% of the time a new device like the Physiomesh Composite hernia device is not tested at all...READ MORE
Johnson & Johnson Could Have Been More Forthcoming in Withdrawing Physiomesh | 9/14/2018
Ethicon Inc., maker of Physiomesh Flexible Composite Hernia Mesh, and parent company Johnson & Johnson dragged their feet before eventually pulling the defective product from the market...READ MORE
Ethicon Will Not Reintroduce Physiomesh | 9/10/2018
Something must be seriously wrong for an industry leader like Johnson & Johnson to forgo billions in revenue and take a medical device off of the market...READ MORE
While Hernias Are Thought To Be A Men's Health Issue, Women Also Get Them And Can Be Adversely Affected By The Malfunctioning Physiomesh | 9/5/2018
There are over 200,000 hernia surgeries performed every year and men are 25 times more likely than women to need it...READ MORE
Doctors Are Surprised With Lax FDA Approval Requirements | 8/27/2018
Surgically implanted medical devices have the potential to cause serious injury and death to patients but little is required of them by the US Food and Drug Administration before going to market...READ MORE
Polypropylene In Physiomesh May Have Never Been Tested | 8/24/2018
A flaw in the FDA approval system may have allowed faulty medical devices like Physiomesh to come to market...READ MORE
Ethicon Fails To PinPoint the Reason for Physiomesh Failures | 8/21/2018
By failing to determine the exact reason Physiomesh fails, hernia mesh surgeons and their patients are left in the dark as to how to fix the problem...READ MORE
Physiomesh May Have Been Compared With Transvaginal Mesh to Receive FDA Fast-Track Approval | 8/14/2018
Physiomesh may have been given FDA approval based on its similarities to a device that has failed and pulled from the market...READ MORE
Physiomesh Failure Started at the FDA | 8/13/2018
Medical Devices Such As The Ethicon Physiomesh Were Brought To Market Using The FDA's Flawed, Outdated 501 (K) Fast Track Approval Procedure...READ MORE
Herniamed Registry Data Convinced Ethicon to Pull Physiomesh | 8/9/2018
Herniamed, an internet-based registry for outcome research of hernia surgeries, cites a high percentage of Physiomesh revision surgeries...READ MORE
Similarities Between Ethicon’s Physiomesh and Transvaginal Mesh Medical Devices | 8/7/2018
The same mesh design, the same support features, and the same device malfunctions make experts question the FDA's fast-track approval process...READ MORE
Physiomesh Failures Could be Ongoing Nightmare | 8/2/2018
If the polypropylene component of Physiomesh turns out to be the cause of its malfunction, tens of thousands of patients could be at risk...READ MORE
The US National Institute of Health's Physiomesh Polypropylene Warning | 7/30/2018
Ethicon and Johnson & Johnson ignored warnings from the US National Institute of Health stating polypropylene does not belong within the human body...READ MORE
Physiomesh is Voluntarily Withdrawn From The Market | 7/27/2018
When billions of dollars in profits are on the line, the decision to walk away from the market cannot help but draw suspicion...READ MORE
Ethicon and Johnson & Johnson Inc. Fear a Flood of Physiomesh Litigation | 7/25/2018
Johnson & Johnson may be looking to limit their legal exposure by voluntarily pulling Physiomesh...READ MORE
Traditional Hernia Repair Doctors Think Physiomesh May Be Unnecessary | 7/23/2018
Old-fashioned hernia repair surgeons are left cleaning up the mess left by the faulty, malfunctioning Ethicon Physiomesh hernia repair device...READ MORE
One Hernia Repair Expert Would Never Use Physiomesh | 7/19/2018
Physiomesh and other composite hernia repair mesh devices are looked upon as little more than a gimmick by experienced, seasoned hernia repair specialists...READ MORE
Scientific Studies of Physiomesh Polypropylene | 7/17/2018
Polypropylene failure has been confirmed by scientific studies conducted by US Government at the National Institute of health...READ MORE
Human Body May Reject Plastic-Based Medical Devices | 7/12/2018
It is hard to believe that the FDA would allow Physiomesh to come to market given the problems Ethicon Inc., had with their Transvaginal mesh, a similar, polypropylene-based medical device...READ MORE
Ethicon Will Not Reintroduce Physiomesh | 7/9/2018
Something must be seriously wrong for an industry leader like Johnson & Johnson to forgo billions in revenue and take a medical device off of the market...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Lawsuits Pile Up | 7/5/2018
Ethicon Physiomesh trials to start next year and thousands more are waiting in the wings...READ MORE
Physiomesh Withdrawn From Market to Limit Ethicon's Liability | 6/30/2018
When a medical device manufacturer voluntarily pulls a billion-dollar product from the market you know that something must be very, very wrong...READ MORE
Court Orders Surgeons to Preserve Physiomesh After Removal | 6/27/2018
Surgeons must preserve the Ethicon Physiomesh Composite Hernia Repair Device after it is removed as evidence of its deterioration within the human body...READ MORE
Thousands of Physiomesh Patients Are Left With Constant Pain | 6/22/2018
Instead of relatively straightforward hernia repair surgery, Physiomesh patients are left suffering from chronic pain, infections, abdominal weakness, and tissue damage requiring revision surgery...READ MORE
Physiomesh Hernia Repair Trial Underway | 6/18/2018
Physiomesh trials have begun in an attempt to hold Ethicon Inc., and Johnson & Johnson accountable for bringing a faulty medical device to market without first making sure it was safe...READ MORE
Polypropylene Rejection by the Human Body May Causes Physiomesh Failure | 6/13/2018
When a foreign object such as a petroleum-based plastic is placed inside the human body there is the likelihood that it will be attacked and rejected by the natural response mechanisms of the human body...READ MORE
Ethicon Withdraws Physiomesh From The Market | 6/8/2018
Faced with the likelihood of yet another expensive product recall, Ethicon voluntarily withdrew their Physiomesh product permanently from the worldwide hernia repair market...READ MORE
Ethicon Takes Physiomesh Taken Off The Market ... Permanently | 6/5/2018
Rather than test, repair and relaunch Physiomesh, Ethicon has chosen to permanently pull the product...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Trial Scheduled To Proceed | 5/28/2018
Physiomesh Composite hernia repair patients eagerly await the first bellwether trial...READ MORE
Polypropylene Could be The Cause of Physiomesh Failure | 5/24/2018
Physiomesh is not the only mesh repair product made from Polypropylene that had to be recalled due to unforeseen complications...READ MORE
Ethicon Pulls Physiomesh From the US Market | 5/21/2018
Ethicon will not admit the exact reason so many Physiomesh patients require additional surgery...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Migration Issue | 5/16/2018
The biggest problem with Ethicon Physiomesh Composite Mesh is that it does not stay put on the abdominal hole or bulge it was intended to repair...READ MORE
Physiomesh Patients Subjected to Revision Surgery | 5/13/2018
An abnormally high number of Ethicon Physiomesh patients are forced to have the device removed and their hernia repair surgery performed using traditional methods...READ MORE
A Market Withdrawal of Physiomesh Heads Off Total Recall | 5/8/2018
Physiomesh issues a voluntary market withdrawal of Physiomesh, having had been forced to totally recall a similar product years earlier and pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages...READ MORE
Market Withdrawal or Compulsory Recall | 5/5/2018
The difference between a company voluntary market withdrawal and a total government recall is a matter of semantics...READ MORE
Johnson and Johnson Pulls Physiomesh From the Market | 5/1/2018
Physiomesh Composite Hernia Mesh is proving to be as flawed a concept as the transvaginal mesh Johnson & Johnson tried to sell years earlier...READ MORE
Lawsuits Against Ethicon Consolidated in Multi-District Litigation | 4/30/2018
Those injured by Physiomesh Composite Hernia Mesh can join Multidistrict Litigation and benefit from a more comprehensive discovery process...READ MORE
Do You Qualify to File a Physiomesh Claim | 4/27/2018
Those who have been injured by the Ethicon Physiomesh hernia repair composite mesh and have had to undergo a second surgery may qualify to sue Johnson & Johnson for compensation...READ MORE
Polypropylene in Physiomesh Causes Device Failure | 4/25/2018
The polypropylene found in Ethicon's Physiomesh is the likely reason so many fail and have to be surgically removed...READ MORE
Facts Pertaining to Hernias and the Ethicon Physiomesh Hernia Repair Composite Mesh | 4/23/2018
Doctors can no longer use Ethicon Physiomesh to repair hernias because of the company's market withdrawal of the product...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Was Not Adequately Tested Before Being Allowed on The Market | 4/16/2018
The Ethicon Physiomesh Composite Hernia Repair Mesh skipped clinical trials and was allowed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be rushed to market ...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Pulled From The Market | 4/13/2018
Patient complaints and government warnings have prompted a recall and a cessation of selling the Ethicon Physiomesh Composite Hernia Mesh...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh Recalled | 4/9/2018
Millions of people who have had hernia repair surgery in the last decade are worried that their surgery may have been a failure...READ MORE
The Ethicon Physiomesh Pulled From The Market | 4/3/2018
Due to high failure rates requiring revision surgery, Ethicon has been forced to voluntarily recall the Physiomesh hernia repair device...READ MORE
A Summary of Physiomesh Hernia Repair Mesh Negligence | 8/21/2017
Here are the main categories that those who have undergone Physiomesh hernia repair surgery should be concerned with...READ MORE
People are Suing Ethicon, Maker of Physiomesh and Johnson & Johnson Subsidiary | 8/14/2017
Multi-district litigation is consolidating the hundreds of claims against Ethicon maker of Physiomesh hernia repair mesh...READ MORE
Urgent Field Safety Notice for Physiomesh Hernia Repair Mesh | 8/7/2017
The Swiss field safety notice has caused Ethicon to issue a US market withdrawal of the Physiomesh hernia repair mesh...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Legal Questions | 7/28/2017
Physiomesh lawsuit lawyers answer the most pressing questions and concerns failed hernia mesh victims might have...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Hernia Repair is Flawed | 7/21/2017
Ethicon's Physiomesh implanted in hernia patients is failing in record numbers...READ MORE
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